Slaughterhouse 5 and Portrayal of Marginalized Social Groups

There are many social groups that are not talked about in the text. There are many examples that are found in Slaughterhouse Five. Women are a huge example of a social group who is excluded. Another group that is silenced in the book is pro-war groups, anti-war, and PTSD aid groups.

The women in this book are silence by not being in the book much at all because women's rights during this time weren't even a thing, and basically had to do what the men told them. The book is about the Vietnam war in which women did not participate in the war. When they are mentioned however they are severely mistreated. The three types of women in the book are house wifies, sexyies, career woman.

House wifies are women who stay home and look over the house and take care of and clean the house while the man works. Sexyies are kind of like strippers or whore who make money using their bodies and by having sex with someone who will pay for it. And lastly a career woman, a career woman is a woman who has an actual job that gets paid a decent dollar. But they are not paid as much as a man who has the same exact job.

The anti-war and pro-war groups are excluded in the book as well. This is possibly because Billy is so focused on writing about what happened when he was at Tralfamadore. He was also saying that he wasn't crazy. He was abducted and the aliens that did it made time slow down so it would seem that he was only one for a couple seconds. In the book Slaughterhouse five they perceive soldiers as being a little weak and weary about being at war, people such as Billy Pilgrim. These kinds of characters were silenced and soft. This makes the people that were involved in the war seem weakened by war.

Social groups are silenced in slaughterhouse five. There are two social groups that are marginalized in the book. The first are women in the way they aren't heard of or seen much at all in the book. The women in this book are silence by not being in the book much at all because women's rights during this time weren't even a thing, and basically had to do what the men told them. When they are mentioned in the book they are greatly mistreated. The other are war groups like pro-war and anti-war groups. They mention the thought of Billy sounding crazy but he never goes to rehab about it.